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January 24, 2004 I've gotten some tasty media in the past few days: » San Francisco Magazine made me their Critics Choice for music this month, a nice little article describing my beatboxing and live-looping, and pointing their readers to LoveFest. » The East Bay Express published a big article about the Vowel Movement show at Ashkenaz, interviewing me and my co-host Tim Barsky. A choice excerpt:
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Andrew is an ebullient Buddhist with a chin so sharp it could open a can of soup. He's also clearly the Vowel Movement's home-run hitter, a fiercely charismatic beatboxer with a secret weapon: live looping, in which he beatboxes specific parts into a foot pedal that records, loops, and slowly pieces his beats together until he has created an aural army of clones onstage.
Watching him one-man-vocal-percussionist-band his way through Portishead's "Wandering Star" is truly mesmerizing. "That's the best live thing I've ever seen," the dude behind me pants when it's over.
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» I am today's front-page subject at Ephemera.org, the new blog from Web-community legend Derek Powazek. Says Powazek, "The guy can beatbox like a machine - a funky, wisecracking, utterly and totally groovy machine." |
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| LOVEFEST BILL CONFIRMED |
| LOVEFEST -- SUN FEB 15 -- SAVE THE DATE |
January 15, 2004 LoveFest is a benefit concert I'm producing
at the Noe Valley Ministry on Sunday, Feb 15.
We're raising money to house a homeless single
mother and her daughter for a year. You are coming to
LoveFest. This is non-negotiable.
Two acts confirmed so far: SoVoSo and Sean Hayes!
Formerly Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, SoVoSo is a
tight, soulful a cappella ensemble that cooks up
a unique, rhythmic mix of jazz, gospel,
world and R&B music, all in their trademark
improvisational style. Be prepared to have
your spirit moved.
This week's SF Weekly has a big article on singer-songwriter Sean Hayes. By the time you get to the end of his latest album, says the Weekly, "You will have forgotten what dry land feels like. Content to treat Hayes' voice as salvation, you float down its dreamy current..."
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| A MOVEMENT IS BORN |
January 10, 2004 Last night, the Vowel Movement made its East Bay debut at Ashkenaz in Berkeley. 152 people -- hipsters, hippies, and hip-hop heads alike -- showed up to hear some of the best beatboxers in the Bay Area. The performers absolutely ripped it. The love in the room was palpable. It was off the hook.
(Don't take my word for it. Check the forums and the blogs.)
Peace to Infinite and Soulati from Felonious, Each, Vocal Wax, the Schmaltzen Drops, spoken-word phenom Jason Bayani, Hamburg's Trainingslager Bouncesystem, my co-producer Tim Barsky, and everyone at Ashkenaz for making this an incredible night. We're already talking to the club about bringing it back in March. |
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